This report examines some of the key changes to the assurance market, including: --The blending of test and operations environments--Analytics as a staple of service assurance solutions--Organization-wide access to customer and network intelligence--The recombination of user-plane and control-plane data for customer experience visibility--The evolving network probe marketThis report will also look at voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) as an example of how a reconstituted service assurance market is proving once again that quality can be the prime differentiator for communications services.

This report examines some of the key changes to the assurance market, including: --The blending of test and operations environments--Analytics as a staple of service assurance solutions--Organization-wide access to customer and network intelligence--The recombination of user-plane and control-plane data for customer experience visibility--The evolving network probe marketThis report will also look at voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) as an example of how a reconstituted service assurance market is proving once again that quality can be the prime differentiator for communications services. Read Less